Former The Pains of Being Pure at Heart singer/songwriter Kip Berman has announced details of ‘Tethers’, his debut solo album as The Natvral (Pre-order via Dirty Bingo here). To celebrate this announcement, he has also shared the video for ‘Why Don’t You Come Out Anymore?’ Informed by catching up with a friend and noticing that…
Skullcrusher (LA-based musician Helen Ballentine) pays homage to one of her favourite songwriters on new single ‘Song for Nick Drake’ – and BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac has already chosen it as ‘Hottest Record in the World’. As you’d expect from its title, the song is a special blend of sad pop that shows how…
TV Priest’s debut album ‘Uppers’ finds the four-piece embracing the beautiful and terrifying unknown moments that shape every aspect of our lives. Formed of four childhood friends who made music together as teens before drifting apart and then coming back together in late 2019, the band is a result of each member’s need to fulfil…
Released via Run for Cover and Keeled Scales, Sun June’s second album finds the Austin, Texa-based five-piece expanding on the ‘regret pop’ (their term) that served them so well on the ‘Years’ LP. Focusing on how love evolves and shapes our lives, the band describe the new record as ‘prom’ music: ‘Prom isn’t all rosy…
Possibly the longest month yet during this pandemic? At least there was some great music to keep all of our spirits up – from the New Year’s Day release of a new album from The Dirty Nil to the gorgeous new single from Loney Dear and the industrial art pop of Albertine Sarges. Here’s a…
Squid have announced details of their debut album ‘Bright Green Field’ (out on 7 May via Warp Records) and shared a video for its lead single ‘Narrator’. The eight-minute behometh of a song features guest vocals from Martha Skye Murphy, while its captivating video was directed by Felix Geen, who says ‘I had wanted to…
Loney Dear has shared latest single ‘Trifles’ ahead of the release of new album ‘A Lantern and a Flag’, via Peter Gabriel’s Real World label, on 26 March. Described as a central track ofthe record, ‘Trifles’ starts off in sparse, almost ambient fashion with Emil Svanängen’s gentle falsetto gliding over a stripped-back piano sound while…
Gold Baby have shared ‘Dorego’ ahead of the release of their debut EP ‘Rabbits’ on 26 March. The song finds Siân Alex laying bare her feelings about feeling overwhelmed in the overstimulating and always-on modern world. The press says it’s ‘about feeling overstimulated and inadequate, about wanting to smash and crush and grind your smartphone…
Leeds-based trio Beluga have shared their debut single ‘Painting with Three Colours’ – and it’s a song that take you on a fascinating journey. Part King Crimson-style prog, part traditional jazz and with some Physics House Band-style riffs thrown in for good measure, the band leave barely any genre untouched. There are bursts of saxophone…
Leeds-based four-piece Bad Idea are the latest band to sign with our friends over at Rose Coloured Records and ‘Winter’ is a potent blast of lo-fi anxiety pop with emo tendencies and sugar-sweet hooks – think Muncie Girls meets Tellison. Lead singer Sarah first discusses money worries and playing the fool before declaring ‘I do…
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